They don't even necessarily care about Windows support. Upgrade to a new version that doesn't quite work the same with the hacks in their cobbled-together drivers, and you're quickly in the same boat as the Linux users.
Have you ever gotten the native HDMI port to work in linux?
oh wow, okay I'll definitely try that haha
> Have you ever gotten the native HDMI port to work in linux?
Yes, with the nvidia drivers it works fine
The parent commenter just has higher standards than you: either that software and hardware are relatively easily decoupled and should be, or that laptop manufacturers should competently implement the standards they claim to, or even just that he's never worked at a company whose product was as poorly-made as almost every laptop's compatibility software.
Good sleep on windows has only returned recently.
After years of great sleep on Windows 7, there have been massive changes following the introduction of ACPI S0.
Case in point: I got a nice laptop for classes like 4 years ago and it did NOT implement either S3 or S4 mode, which caused a MASSIVE problem in Linux. I found out about the issue on mailing list: the bios simply didn't implement at all this part of ACPI, instead of exposing the hooks based on the OS detection. It was to reduce problems in theory, but it brought many more in practice.
Connected standby (S0idle) was very flaky on Windows 10, and very often the laptop would eat the battery overnight instead of going to sleep.
I'm not sure if there are direct lessons there for Linux driver handling as Microsoft has huge test labs that do forward these sorts of event logs to the hardware manufacturers and is in a position to expect at least some of them to do better next time (either next driver update or next hardware refresh).
Macs have always nailed it. When I worked at a computer store like 15 years ago, people would bring in their Macs, open up the lid and it would wake instantly after being asleep in someone's bag for 2 weeks and still have a 90% charge. Any Windows PC in that era would have run until it overheated and melted, or ran out of battery, whichever happened first.
My desktop (custom built) refuses to go to sleep when I'm booted into Linux. Straight up just wakes itself immediately.
Over in Windows land I've had this issue on a regular basis with a Thinkpad that keeps waking itself up. I've had this issue occasionally on a Surface Book 2, I suspect due to a finicky monitor attached to the dock. I've had this issue pretty much never on a first gen Surface Book attached to the same dock. Go figure.
It's probably a device that it's waking the computer up. In my case it was a mouse. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389048 for a solution.
If I select the sleep option in the start menu it probably won't wake back up and I'll have to unplug it for about 10 minutes to get it to boot again.
Previous causes have been sound drivers, chrome, steam, joysticks, some unknown that an update fixes.
They had no idea what happened or how to fix it.
I doubt this is true. Windows = computing for a good over 80% of humanity. Not markets, not regions. Humanity.